The Tom Green Farm (2026) s01e05 Episode Script

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(Tom): This has been a wild
and crazy time in my life.
So many amazing people
have popped by this farm.
Kurt Vile, an incredible
alternative rock 'n roller
from Philadelphia,
flew up here to hang out
with us.
Taught me how to play
his song Pretty Pimpin',
which is one of
my favourite songs.
You know, when the best
skateboarder in the world
comes up to the farm,
you might learn a few tricks.
When the best alternative
rock 'n roll star of today
comes up and sits down
in the barn and teaches you
how to play some music,
it's a real thrill,
and you pick up a few things.
George Stroumboulopoulous
is also a guy
who was on MuchMusic,
and it was fun to have him
up here at the farm today.
We spent some time with some
First Nations Spirit
Horse riders,
from the Ojibwe
and Algonquin nation.
And sat around and talked about
the good old days of MuchMusic
and all things Strombo.
You know, I'd never thought
I'd get to go horseback riding
with George Stroumboulopoulos,
but it turns out
George Stroumboulopoulos
is a bit of a horseback
rider himself.
It's gonna be a good show.
Let's go.
(rooster crowing)
(theme music)
This is the Tom Green Farm ♪
It's not the Green Tom Farm ♪
This is my favourite farm ♪
Because it is my farm ♪
If this was your farm ♪
You'd probably like it
more than I did ♪
That's just because
it was your farm ♪
But it's not your farm
It's the Tom Green Farm ♪
- It's the Tom Green Farm!
(birds chirping)
(guitar music)
Hello, hi, Elora!
Katie, thank you so much
for training Elora
for the last few weeks.
You're bringing her home
(both): Tomorrow.
- To my place.
- Yep.
- And she's gonna see
her baby again, Aria.
- She's gonna be so happy!
It has been so much fun
being your horse trainer.
That has been icing
on the cake for me.
- Oh, thank you.
- It was a great summer project.
Oh don't worry,
you're gonna have two more.
- Look at you,
we're gonna go for a ride.
You're a big guy, huh?
What kind of horse is this?
- He is a Clydesdale.
- Clydesdale?
An actual Clydesdale?
- Yep. Thoroughbred cross, yes.
- Like the Budweiser horse.
- Yeah! Exactly.
- So we're gonna ride him
into town, huh?
- Yeah, let's go
let's go to town!
(Tom): Oh yeah. Let's go.
(woman): How does that
feel, Tom?
- It feels like being on Fanny.
(woman): Good.
Boy, you look good.
- Oh yeah.
Now where are we headed now?
- Okay, we're headed
straight to town.
- Straight to town.
Just along the highway, huh?
- Yep, right along the highway.
(Tom): Alright,
this is pretty cool.
Look at Elora doin' great.
Mm-hmm.
(horse snorting)
That's right.
Come on!
(clicks tongue)
Oh, this is
the coffee shop here?
- Yep, right here.
- How was your ride in?
- Oh, really good, really good.
- Thanks, Robin!
(laughing)
- I've been riding to town, Tom,
since I was little.
I used to return movies
to the movie store.
- Bye!
- Thanks!
- That's fast enough, Tom!
(soft music)
Whoa, Tom!
Whoa, whoa, whoa!
- That was pretty exciting
for a second there.
(chuckles)
That was fun!
Oh my God.
That's different.
Let's see here.
You feel good. Yeah.
- How do you feel?
- Oh, she feels great, yeah.
- Don't let her eat
when you're riding, though.
- It feels great.
This is great.
Elora, you're doin' great.
Thank you.
Let's go for a little ride out
here under the sunset, come on.
Mm-hmm.
Oh yeah.
Awesome.
(soft music)
(birds chirping)
(Tom): Kurt Vile this is
so, so rad, I'm stoked.
Thanks for coming.
I'm a huge fan. And this is
(Kurt): Thanks
(Tom): I'm so glad you are here!
I can't believe it,
this is awesome!
(Kurt): I can't believe it.
(Tom): You were telling me
you play the trumpet.
I happen to have a trumpet.
(Kurt laughs)
- Yeah, I mean, it's
it's my first instrument.
I pick it up here and there.
- I was thinking it might be fun
to play some music
today for the animals.
- Yeah.
- And see how they react
to the trumpet. So
- We'll see what happens.
It's been a second.
- See if the animals
liken to you.
(playing trumpet)
- That's very nice.
Look look, they're looking.
Look, Kurt,
they're looking, look.
- Oh!
- See?
(playing trumpet)
- Hey! I'm sorry.
(laughs)
- Hey, guys!
(playing trumpet)
- Hello!
Kurt Vile's here!
You live in the city
of Philadelphia,
or are you out in the country?
- I live in Philadelphia,
the city
- Oh, cool.
I saw in one of your videos
you have chickens, though.
Are those your chickens, or
- No, my dad's got chickens.
- Oh, your dad's chi
Were those your dad's chickens?
- Yeah.
- That's the video
with your daughters?
- Oh yeah, the
my Christmas video.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Must be Santa.
- The Santa Claus video?
- Yeah, my brother Paul,
Jelloman,
he plays the reindeer
that eats whipped cream.
I told him we might
FaceTime him.
- The Jelloman.
He's your brother.
- Yeah. Jelloman.
- Is this common knowledge?
- He's gettin' pretty popular.
He's definitely popular
in Philly,
but also the festival circuit.
- What's he do, exactly?
- By trade,
he's a really good bricklayer,
but he would go to festivals,
and he saw some girl
selling Jello shots,
I guess, is the legend,
and somewhere along the way,
he just became this
the Jelloman, the character.
- Is he pretty stoked
for your success?
- Oh yeah, he's always
been supportive and
he's got that
the same kind of brain as me.
He's like He's stoked
for his success, you know?
(laughing)
(FaceTime alert)
Okay.
- Yo.
- Yo, Jelloman!
- Tom, what's up?
- What's goin' on with
Jelloman today?
We're just hangin'
out here in Canada.
- I just got back from
a festival, I was selling
bootleg t-shirts.
- I'm excited to dive more
into the world of Jelloman.
I'm excited about this.
And we'll meet in person
sometime, for sure.
- Yeah. See you, dude.
- I'm having fun with
your brother here today.
We're having a good time.
It's been awesome.
Next time, come with him, okay?
- You gotta pay
your own way though.
(chuckles)
- Thanks, man.
See you later, Jelloman!
- Bye.
(soft music)
(Tom): Thanks for coming, Trina.
- Thank you so much
for having us.
- Good to meet you.
What do you think
of this jacket,
by the way, do you like it?
- I love that
That's what I was saying,
I love that jacket!
I think it's beautiful beadwork.
Someone has made
Yes, beadwork like him!
- Yeah, this is appropriate?
- It is! Yes.
You know, I think that if
you support Indigenous artists
and get something
that's obviously created
by Indigenous artists,
it's not appropriation,
it's like appreciation
for the culture and sharing it.
It's a great support
to Indigenous artists!
- And this is your Spirit Horse?
- These little Spirit Horses
dwelled in the boreal forest,
but they stayed close
to our community
and we would provide food
and kinda protection
over the winter.
And then, they would allow
themselves to be used
for traversing
and checking traplines.
And so we have a long history
with this horse.
- Why are they called
Spirit Horses, by the way?
- Just to represent
how we respect animals,
and kinda the sacred
relationship we have
with all of our four-legged
and all of nature around us.
- People sorta hear horses
were brought here
by the Europeans and
But that's not true?
- We're actually just releasing
a tour at Madahòkì Farm
that kinda dives
into that history
and questions
some of the science.
You know, we're showing
pictures of petroglyphs,
like the rock carvings
that show horses
that they say must be
a mythical being
because they wouldn't
have been here yet
- No, see that
There's the proof right there.
- Exactly.
- That's what
the petroglyphs were for.
- That's it.
So it, like, reinforces
what our Elders say,
that we have that
you know, longstanding
connection with the ponies.
Because they were small,
they were kinda seen
as useless when, you know,
the big, strong kinda workhorses
started coming in.
And so that was why
we almost lost them.
So in the 1970s, it was down
to the last four of this breed.
- Four horses of this
- Four horses. Yeah.
- Wow, okay. And now how many
are there in Canada?
- So, there's approximately
200 in Canada.
- You don't think
they ate 'em, huh?
- Oh my gosh, I hope not.
I wouldn't think so.
(laughing)
The bison, maybe, obviously.
- Some people eat
horses, though.
- They do. It's an issue here
in Canada, with the
- That would take
the fun out of it.
I'm not trying to bring
the mood down or anything,
I was just asking questions.
(laughing)
- That's okay.
- It's a weird question,
I guess.
Where is it they eat 'em?
- Quebec.
- Quebec?
- They eat 'em
in Quebec as well.
- They eat 'em in Quebec?
- Yeah
- The French Canadians do?
- They sell them
They sell horse meat in Quebec.
- The French Canadians,
they eat horse?
First I heard of this.
You heard of that, Mom?
You heard of them eating horses
over there in Quebec?
You used to live down in
That's my mom right there.
We used to live
in Saint-Jean, right?
- No! We sure didn't.
- So you're not going to be
farming them for meat here?
(laughing)
- No, no.
I'm just goofing around,
we're gonna edit
all this stuff out.
- Okay.
- Yeah.
We might not,
but we probably will.
(soft acoustic music)
Charlie. Charlie,
come see Grandma.
Oh, you don't like that?
Sorry. Forgot about that.
You used to say that, Mom.
I told you not to, yeah, 'cause
it made me feel like a failure.
(laughing)
(Tom's mother): Stop.
- In my early 20s,
I was sick as a dog,
living in this place in Toronto,
and I couldn't sleep.
And I put on a TV channel,
and I saw your house
get painted plaid.
- Mm-hmm.
- And I thought,
I couldn't believe
what I was watching.
That's the first time
I'd seen you,
'cause they were playing
out of Toronto, at Rogers
(Tom's mother): I couldn't
believe what we were living.
(laughing)
- Your face was
- Sorry about that, Mom.
(laughing)
- Oh well,
you made up for it, Tom.
(Tom): All worked out.
Now you're here,
sitting on a lawn chair,
watching Strombo and your son
have a conversation.
- Exactly.
It was all worth the effort.
- But I bet you weren't
sure for a while.
- Yeah, I know, we
It was touch and go, there,
I'll tell ya.
- This is great.
George, thank you.
- Hey, buddy.
- Thanks for coming by.
- Nice to see you,
I'm just around the corner,
so it was an easy ride.
- You didn't take
the motorcycle though?
- No, no, I didn't. I didn't.
I rode it from Toronto
to California.
And then I left it there.
- But you know who did
ride their motorcycle?
Our friend Sergio.
Sergio, come on in here
for a second.
Thank you so much, Sergio,
for being here.
We've got a good story to tell.
Sergio You know how
Sergio and I met?
I was walking down
Queen Street West one day,
right across from your stomping
grounds, MuchMusic
- Mm-hmm.
- I ran into you.
I said, "Hey, do you know
where I could get a haircut
around here?"
- And I said, "I got a guy."
- Yeah.
Sergio's been cuttin'
my hair ever since.
So I thought today,
like since you were able
to do us the honour
of coming by the show here,
that maybe we could also have
Sergio come down
on his motorcycle
and we could get
our haircuts together.
(laughs)
- This is great, by the way,
this thing that you have.
This is incredible.
(Tom): So much fun.
Like, I mean, it's nice
to be home in Canada!
I lived in Los Angeles
for 21 years.
You still live in Los Angeles
- I have a place there, yep.
I worked there. And still do,
but I'll never
not be where I'm from,
and I'll never not have
a place in Toronto.
Like, Toronto is still my home.
- Yeah.
And you do your show there?
For Apple Music
- I do my show
from LA and New York,
and sometimes from Toronto.
- When you grow up in Canada
in the 80s
and you're watching
John Roberts, you know,
JD Roberts hosting
the Power Hour on MuchMusic,
and then all of a sudden,
you end up being
a MuchMusic VJ
- First time you and I met
was in the library
in the basement of MuchMusic.
- I remember that clearly.
- And that's when we
that's when I interviewed you,
and that was the very
first time we met.
And that was 25 years ago.
The good side of this,
that you wouldn't get normally,
when you were struggling,
when you were painting
your house plaid
- Yeah.
- You know
Tell me about
the good stuff that comes
with this weird celebrity
culture we live in.
- Yeah, no, it's
I mean, it's fun.
Look, it was the dream
My whole life, I dreamed
of trying to be able
to work in television.
That's really what
I wanted to do.
I wanted to be able to
I grew up watching
David Letterman runnin' around,
yellin' at people
with a megaphone
out of this high-rise
at Rockefeller Center,
and I thought,
"Man, that's funny, that's fun."
I was the class clown,
goofball kid.
I moved around
from Canadian military base
to Canadian military base
every six months for the first,
you know, seven or eight
years of my life,
so I was always
sorta the new kid.
And the only way
I really could kinda fit in
was to kinda
be a goof, you know?
So at a certain point,
pretty early on, I thought,
"Man, I'd love to do that."
And you know,
so just being
The challenge of it, really,
of trying to create
our show in the beginning,
of trying to move it
to the next place,
was really exciting.
And you know, I mean,
it's a really gratifying thing.
I went there when I was a kid,
when I was with Organized Rhyme
and I got to host Rap City
in 1992
- '92?
- Just one episode of it,
you know?
- That Organized Rhyme video,
Check the O.R.,
was filmed about 200 yards
from where my grandmother lived.
- Oh, your grandmother lived
at Jane and Finch?
- Yeah.
- Really?
- And I lived down the street
of Jane and Wilson,
at Chalkfarm, yeah.
- Oh, that's cool. That was
the Dream Warriors' idea
to do that.
- Was it really?
- Yeah, 'cause the Dream
Warriors signed us,
and they're from Jane and Finch.
And they saw it,
"Oh this would be a fun idea."
Like you're trying
to bring us a demo tape.
And then like we like,
kick you outta Jane and Finch.
- That's interesting
- I think about it afterwards
and I think to myself,
that's probably not
the best idea to like, kinda
give us street credibility,
you know?
Like, we're trying to sneak
into Jane and Finch,
and then we get kicked out
by the Dream Warriors
'cause we're not cool enough.
- Right, but it's their idea,
which means you gotta vouch.
- I know, but nobody knew
it was their idea until now.
(laughs)
- That's the first time
I've heard it!
Yeah, it was a total vouch!
Wow, that's amazing.
- You just thought
the Dream Warriors wanted us
to get the fuck outta
Jane and Finch.
(laughing)
How's that happen?
How do you get your first
job at MuchMusic?
- I'd come back
from the Lizard life.
I worked
at a sports radio station,
where I was an NBA reporter.
And then I got hired
at a music radio station
around the corner
from MuchMusic.
And I guess MuchMusic had
an opening on The NewMusic.
And a guy who worked at a record
company called Steve Waxman
Somebody called him and said,
"Hey, we need a new host,"
and he said, "You should look
at this George kid."
And that's how it kinda started.
It turns out, I was told later,
they hired me
because they thought
I could interview
difficult people,
and they wanted to
They needed somebody
they could throw into situations
that could go wrong.
- Probably why they had you
interview me.
- Could be why, could be why.
(laughing)
They were thinking more like,
physical fights.
I was even told we might have
to get into a fight fight.
- Like who would that be?
Who would you have
to fight with on TV?
- Well, specifically,
it was Fred Durst.
- Oh yeah? Okay
He was a guy that liked
to fight the interviewers?
- Well, there was a lot
of difficulty at the time,
and I think they thought
it coulda gone really weird,
and they just wanted somebody
who could get into it.
- I'm just living
in a world of reality.
Of, you know
Any second could be
the last second.
So any second now
- Do you mean in the band?
- Just anything.
Life, death, success, failure.
- Are you ready to die then?
- No.
(George chuckles)
I'm not ready to die,
I'm not ready to fail.
But it's outta my control.
- And that's the bitch
of it all, right?
Is that if it's outta
your control,
the failing part
- Yeah.
- What do you do?
How do you look at it, like,
if say, if this record
doesn't go
That's it for Limp Bizkit,
and I do something different?
- No, it's a great record, man.
I mean, I don't know
I don't judge records by going
by its statistics and numbers.
That's the corporate
world, probably.
There's a connection
and a feeling,
an internal flame
that burns inside of you,
inside of the work you do,
and it's there.
- Okay. I'm buddies with Fred,
I know Fred, so I mean
- Yeah, I know.
And I've interviewed him
many times since.
Yeah, we got along fine.
- So then, how long were you
at MuchMusic for?
- Five years.
- Okay.
- Five years, and then
I went to CBC
to do a talk show for ten.
- A 10-year talk show.
Has there ever been a talk show
in Canada that lasted 10 years?
- Not a nightly. There's been
shows that have done weeklies.
- That was a nightly show?
- That was a nightly show, yeah.
- Wow.
- Yeah, yeah.
(soft music)
- A nice fall day
in Ontario, eh?
- Yeah.
(Tom): All the leaves
just are starting
to fall off the trees.
(Kurt): Yeah, I mean,
being from the East Coast,
like, seeing the leaves
change every year
Like, I like to go
to California,
but that's one thing
we got that they don't.
- Let's just Wanna look
at this field for a second?
- Yeah. It's a nice field.
You got a nice field.
- Thank you, man.
They're getting all the hay
off of this field
for the animals, so
- It's funny, like
my whole life, I've
two kinds of fields I drive by,
you know, like A football
field or a soccer field.
And I'd be like,
"Ah, I wish I could just run
through that field,"
but I never do.
And same if you're, like,
driving along the road,
especially on the highway in,
like, Wyoming and Montana,
the rolling hills.
I'm like, "I wish I could
just run in those fields."
But you never really do.
You never really do.
- Shit, I mean
- We could run in this field?
- We could do that right now
if you wanted to, I mean
If you feel like you wanna
take a little
- We could if you want.
- Oh man,
you're a fast runner!
Oh my God
(laughs)
You're fast! Okay.
Kinda gets the blood goin', huh?
- Yeah.
- Yeah! Charlie!
No one's ever asked me
to do this before.
- Wow.
(panting)
- I like this. Wait!
See, you're a fast runner.
(Kurt laughs)
You did that on purpose.
'Cause I consider myself to be
a fairly fast runner, but
I mean, you were
killing it there.
- Oh, thanks.
Yeah, I used to be fast.
I used to play sports, like
not like,
I didn't sign up to play them,
but my parents
would make me play sports.
And I'd get home
on the weekend, be like,
"Thank God it's the weekend."
My dad would be like,
"You got a game tomorrow!"
And I'd be like
(chuckles)
so pissed.
- Yeah. Yeah.
(laughs)
- I had similar types of things
in my upbringing.
Had to go on canoe trips.
My dad sent me on canoe trips
in the summer.
I wanted to skateboard
- Yeah.
- He wanted me to go
on a canoe trip.
- Oh I did skateboard
all my all my teens.
That was my main thing.
- But did your family support
your musical ambitions?
- Oh absolutely. Absolutely.
- Yeah.
So even though
they made you play sports,
they still appreciated
that you were dedicating
yourself to music?
- Yeah, and honestly, I think
by the time I played
At least I wanted a guitar,
but for my 14th birthday,
my dad got me a banjo.
So, technically my first
stringed instrument's the banjo,
but I
Definitely when I was 14,
I wasn't playing sports anymore.
- And you start playing
guitar and banjo
Was there a moment you realize,
"Oh, I like, really love this"?
And then, I guess you start
getting better at it.
Is there a moment you realize
you're sort of
- Well
- set to do
You wanna do this
for your future
- Yeah. Um, pretty much
right away, honestly.
'Cause I was kinda making
my own chords and stuff.
Writing my own songs,
like immediately
- Yeah.
- So. Right away. That's
- How do you explain that?
Is it just sort of a natural
sort of understanding of music,
or just a certain creativity
that you have?
- I think it's in my blood.
- Mm-hmm.
- Just like Well, you're
You've been musically talented
since the beginning too,
and other facets.
And you just,
you can't help it,
you just do it.
- Well, cool.
I wanna show you around more,
so let's just Awesome.
Thanks, man.
(gentle guitar music)
(birds calling)
(Kurt): Are you a night owl?
- Since I've moved here
to the country,
I'm a morning person,
which is the weirdest thing,
'cause you know, when you're
on the road doin' stand-up,
or I'm assuming when you're
performing rock concerts,
afterwards,
your adrenaline is up
and you just
can't go to sleep, right?
- Yeah, no, it's true, like
my wife, she'll always be like,
it's healthy,
you gotta flip your schedule
to get up in the morning.
And sometimes,
I am on a morning schedule.
It is rewarding to see
the day as it comes.
But like, I'm in show business,
so like shows start at night.
Yeah, and then you
the adrenaline, or when
you're recording
Same deal. Like, you say,
"Let's start early,"
but everybody's moving slow
and then it gets later
and later every night,
and then you're high from
the things you just recorded.
I go to sleep
no earlier than 3 AM.
Sometimes later.
- When you're writing,
do you like writing
at night like that?
- Yeah, sure. Exactly.
Or just your ideas, it's like
I've lived off of that.
It's like when people
go to sleep,
it's completely quiet and
the world is yours 100 percent.
(insects chirping)
- Glad you made it.
That's great. Thanks.
- I was just here, like,
less than a month ago
to see Neil Young up in T.O.
I think that I heard you
tell me that you saw Neil
when you hosted Live Aid.
So that was in, what,
the '90s?
(Tom): Yeah, I tripped over
a guitar cable
and almost unplugged his guitar
while he was performing
in front of 120 000 people.
- Yeah.
- And he's playing,
and he looked at me,
he was like
(mumbling)
So that was embarrassing.
- What I love about Neil,
'cause I've seen him
I don't know, 20 times
I see him every time
I get a chance. Every tour.
But he's just in the moment.
And he's Nobody rocks
like Neil Young.
And he just has
all those classic songs.
He's all about current affairs,
he's not like tapped out,
like just there to collect
or something.
- Yeah, he's one
of our great Canadians.
Would you say
he's one of your
So, who were your big
influences, then?
- Oh yeah, he's one
of my hugest influences.
I have a lot of influences.
I love John Prine.
I know you like John Prine.
- Yeah.
- I got so many influences,
you know.
- Wanna continue walking around?
- Yeah.
- Alright.
(soft music)
(indistinct chatter)
(acoustic music playing)
(indistinct chatter)
- See, this is the one
I kinda had a feeling
would be great on stage tonight.
- Shit, I like that hat.
- Yep.
- Jay from Coup de Tête
in Toronto.
Has a great haberdashery here.
You call it a haberdashery?
- Uh yeah.
- I like saying
the word haberdashery.
That's a great hat.
Thank you. Thank you.
- Very excited to see you.
Glad to see you're livin'
back in Canada.
Can't wait to see
the show tonight.
- Make some fucking noise
for the very iconic,
the very funny
Tom Green everybody!
(applause, cheering)
(Tom): What's up, Toronto?
(cheering)
This is the Tom Green Farm ♪
It's not the Green Tom Farm ♪
This is my big red farm ♪
(upbeat music)
- Thank you, Toronto!
(cheering)
You guys have been awesome.
Thank you very much, everybody.
(applause)
- That's super cool of you,
thank you so much.
- Thank you, thank you.
- What a beauty.
- We love you for comedy,
and we love you for your music.
- Thank you, thank you.
- We're gonna follow you.
Till the end.
(indistinct chatter)
(soft music)
(Tom): Nice to meet you.
This is Fanny.
- This is Mukwa.
- You're Kaia, right?
- Yes.
- And this is Mukwa?
- "Black bear" in Ojibwe.
- Mukwa means "black bear"?
- Yes.
- She looks like a black bear.
- Yeah.
- And this is a Spirit Horse?
- Yeah, so he's a Ojibwe
Spirit Horse.
He's five years old, so he's
just a bit of a baby still.
- And then what is
a Spirit Horse exactly?
- They're the only horse
that's from Canada, actually.
- Really?
- Genetically.
When they're born,
we pull 75 mane strands.
And it's all sent into a lab
and they're DNA tested.
Like all of the warmbloods
and the different kinds
of like, thoroughbreds,
they all came across
when the settlers came
- Yeah.
- So these guys were here
when the Indigenous people
lived on the land.
- What is it exactly that
a Spirit Horse does?
- I'm trying to get them
ready for kids to ride.
There's a big market for this
size in show jumping.
- Okay.
Fanny, you're doin' good.
I ride Fanny like
Oh, not every day,
but three or four times a week,
we go for a nice long ride.
Her mother's a Percheron horse.
- Oh, that's why she's so big.
- Yeah, and her daddy
was a donkey.
(chuckles)
So That's what happens.
But she may be the tallest
ridable mule in Canada.
- She is the biggest
ridable mule
I think I've ever seen
in my life.
- Yeah.
- Riding is a very
it's a very special sport.
- Yeah.
- It's the only sport where
your teammate is an animal.
Which is pretty cool.
- Yeah.
Surprising that nobody ever
decided to try riding a dog.
Like maybe like a really
big dog and like a small
like, you know, jockeys,
horse jockeys are often
little guys.
- Yeah, they're often
like five feet tall.
They could definitely fit
on one of those big Great Danes.
- Maybe if you get, like,
little people or something
to ride dogs or something
- That would be cool.
- As a sport.
I dunno, probably not allowed
to talk about that kinda thing.
(laughing)
Like, in today's society,
I don't think you can talk
about or suggest the idea
of little people riding
Great Danes as a sport.
Somebody would find something
wrong with that concept.
Um, but we're gonna edit
this part out.
So
(laughing)
You would never write
a song like this ♪
'Cause this song's way
too stupid ♪
To waste the ink
on something like this ♪
- Welcome to the barn.
Thanks so much for coming, Kurt.
- I'm stoked to be here.
- It's a lot of
A lot of fun out here
in the country, yeah?
- Yeah!
- So I told you I'm like,
not really
a very good guitar player,
but you maybe could give me
a few lessons today and stuff.
But we'll just sorta
get to that later,
I just wanted
to kind of establish clearly
to the audience that
I'm not here trying to like,
you know, go toe-to-toe with you
or anything like that.
(laughs)
This is not like
a duelling guitars session
or anything like that
- No.
(rooster crowing)
- That is nice, by the way.
That's our new rooster,
Sergeant Pepper.
That's not a sound effect,
by the way.
That is Sergeant Pepper, our
(rooster crowing)
Our new rooster.
You have a new album
coming out right now,
pretty much.
- Very soon. I know this, now,
that it takes a minute,
so I just I don't,
like, sit there and like,
"It's time
to make the record."
I just find the people
I like to work with lately,
and I come off the road
or something,
and I know it's time to go
in the studio and record.
So I've been working
on this one
for the last
couple years, really.
- It must be hard to be touring
and then to stop touring,
write a record, tour again.
I mean, how do you find
inspiration to
- That's why I do it
all at once.
Like, you just always
do a lot at once.
In fact, I toured
this past summer
with The Pixies all summer,
and I had done
a good chunk of recording,
but then I knew,
I was like, I'm tired.
But I know if I don't
go over to LA
and record with my buddy
before I leave,
I'm gonna be really stressed
when I get off a tour
at the end of the summer
and have to finish my record.
- You make the music first,
and then the lyrics?
Do you write the lyrics?
- It really depends.
Sometimes I got a riff or
even like a loop.
Lyrics come fast.
Other times, yeah,
you got some lyrics,
or all of them.
- Like, how do you find
inspiration for your lyrics?
Do you
Like, where does it come from?
- Once in a blue moon,
I'll have a good funny title.
A lot of times, it's
it comes out
stream-of-consciousness,
but not necessarily
in an absurd way.
It could be, if you wanted.
But a lot of times,
it's 'cause you're inspired
in that moment
and you just let it flow.
Or I sit around and write
lyrics or poetry in downtime,
and other times
I'm not writing at all.
Just open to when it comes
to you and don't stress.
- They say sometimes,
like the
People's best songs
just came out
in an instant or something.
- Yeah.
Some of my favourite songs,
I wrote pretty fast.
The only hit song I have
is Pretty Pimpin',
but that came pretty fast.
- How much are the lyrics
in Pretty Pimpin' based on,
sort of, your life?
- The lyrics came out quick,
most of them.
For instance, I have an album
called Smoke Ring For My Halo,
and I didn't pay attention
to the lyrics at the time,
but then when people
are reviewing it,
you realize the lyrics are
all kinda depressing or dark.
Or it could be taken that way.
And what I like about
Pretty Pimpin' is, like,
yeah, you're lost, you don't
even recognize yourself.
And all those lyrics came fast,
but then, when I came up
with the punchline
where you turn it around.
You're like, "But he was
sportin' all my clothes.
I gotta say,
pretty pimpin'." You know?
(laughing)
Like, he's looking good.
And also the fact that
I stole Like, I feel like
I was like, "I can't believe
I'm the one
who snatched the title
of Pretty Pimpin'."
You know, like, you'd think
it'd be taken by now.
- Right, yeah.
- You know what I mean?
Or by a cool rapper
or something, but I got it
- Yeah, just that
combination of words.
- Yeah. That one, it's got
a cool finger-picking pattern,
and you could get lost
in that and
Basically, two fingers.
(playing guitar)
But it's about getting this
Staying with the bass notes
all the time.
That's that's like the pulse.
Yeah.
- Now that I'm seeing the way
the picking pattern works,
I actually see that
Like, I see how it's possible
to do now, yeah.
- But the repetition is like
a nursery rhyme, so I
Kids liked it, so I was like,
"Oh, I guess I've stumbled
upon something on that song."
- I did a song called
The Bum Bum Song once
- I know
- And kids liked that too.
- "My bum is on the rail!"
- It was like a
(playing guitar)
My bum is on the cheese,
my bum is on the cheese ♪
If I get lucky,
I'll get a disease ♪
- I was a little This was
a little more basic, but
Did go to number one
on Total Request Live
My bum is on the rail ♪
(gentle guitar music)
- Fanny!
(indistinct chatter)
Who's here?
How are you, Amy?
- I'm good, Tom, how are you?
- Very good.
You've met Amanda before, right?
- Yeah, hey! How's it goin'?
- Awesome, awesome.
I'm excited to see
their reaction.
- Flower's coming out first.
- Hello, hey.
Oh, they've realized. Look.
Benny and everyone's realized.
Mom is here, Aria! Ooh.
- Here she is!
- Wow!
- Pretty girl!
- Who is it?
- Who's that?
Is it your best friend, Fanny?
- Yay.
- Look at Fanny get so excited.
- Oh yeah. See?
Yeah.
- Look at her mouth!
- Ooh. Ooh.
- She's talking.
(Amanda laughs)
- Look at how happy she is.
- Oh my God,
that's so sweet!
- Hi, Fanny.
Isn't this exciting? Look!
Are you excited? Come on.
Alright!
Let's go, let's go.
Look at that, huh? Yay!
(soft music)
(horse whinnies)
Your friend's home.
- She's such a quiet horse,
like, she's so gentle,
she's so calm.
She's come a long way.
(Tom): Look at her being ridden
like a seasoned veteran.
- You can lead the way!
- Okay. We'll go this way.
- Now, who was the boss?
Before she left.
Like, who went
to the grain first?
- She gets the food first.
- Okay, so she's his boss.
- I think so.
(blues music playing)
I gotta chicken
on my shoulder ♪
I gotta chicken
on my shoulder ♪
I gotta chicken
on my shoulder ♪
I'm no spring chicken
anymore ♪
- That's what I've been doing.
That's what I'm doing.
- She just took
a shit on our floor.
- Oh okay. Alright, cool.
I was just in Kelowna
where you started doing radio
- Yeah, my first
legal radio job,
at a rock station
called the Lizard,
and I was also a mascot
for that station.
I wore a green lizard
mascot costume.
- That station still on the air?
- It is, yeah.
I had a heavy metal show
called High Voltage.
- And was that, like,
your favourite kind of
music growin' up?
Heavy metal?
- Yeah, yeah.
- Punk rock music?
- Yeah, punk and metal
were my favourite kinds.
The older I got,
the more my taste opened up.
- So if you had to choose
between metal or punk rock,
which would you choose?
(inhales sharply)
Suicidal Tendencies
or Metallica?
- Well, so, Suicidal Tend
I would choose Suicidal because
they're metal and punk rock.
- Oh, okay.
- Metallica were the most
important band to me
when I was 10 or 11 years old.
- Okay.
- Definitely.
- Guns n' Roses
or the Sex Pistols.
- Sex Pistols. Yeah.
- Okay.
Quiet Riot or Green Day?
- Ooh.
(chuckling)
Green Day.
- That's a weird one.
- Yeah, it's a weird one,
because Quiet Riot had
two amazing hits.
- Yeah. Right now, this is
the only show in the world
where two people are
- Getting a haircut.
- In 2025, yep.
- Has anybody given you
the credit
that whenever you say "this is
the only show in the world",
you can bet within
seven or eight years,
a whole bunch of people
are gonna be trying
to do exactly what you did
seven or eight years earlier?
- I have a feeling everyone's
gonna be getting their haircut.
(laughing)
On a picnic table
on their talk show soon.
- I think it's gonna happen.
- Was there a certain point
when you realized
you liked asking questions?
- I don't know because I never
actually set out to do it.
I honestly just wanted to play
music overnight on the radio.
But when I became
an NBA reporter,
that's when I started to learn
how to ask questions
for a living.
But it only just happened
because I just saw
Scottie Pippen from the Chicago
Bulls sitting by himself.
- Man, that's cool.
- And I sat down.
It was my first ever
one-on-one interview.
- Scottie Pippen, man.
- I saw Scottie and went,
"Hey, you got a minute?"
He was like, "Yeah, sure."
And I sat down.
- And then you gradually must've
fallen in love with
interviewing people, right?
- Yeah. I realized that I
Whatever my brain chemistry is,
it allows me to be very present.
It wasn't about being salacious.
I was trying to create
an archive of humanity.
You know, 'cause I know these
careers are weird careers,
and so I don't think
too much about the
the big picture
as it relates to me,
but I know that
Thanks, buddy. Thank you.
I grew up watching all these
great conversationalists.
And people forget, maybe,
who the interviewer was,
but the stories that are told
are really iconic.
So I just thought, well,
if I can be part of the journey
of people that do that, then
that would be pretty cool.
I said no to that CBC job
like four times.
- You said no to all the jobs.
- I say no to everything. 'Cause
I don't wanna do anything.
I would much rather do
what you're doing here,
which is hang out.
You know? And like,
be in the woods
and be creative in the woods.
- You think there's
something to that?
Is there like some sort
of reverse psychology,
like maybe, the fact
that you didn't look
like you were chasing
the gig so hard?
- It made them ask me again.
But it was Like, I don't
quantify success by my career.
I put no value or pride
in my career at all.
This is just a thing I do
'cause believe
in telling stories.
- Is that actually true,
though, really?
- No pride in your career?
- Zero. Zero.
It's 100 percent true.
- How could that be possible?
I mean, you
You pursue it,
you do it every day.
You put all this effort into it.
I mean, you gotta have
a little bit of
- It's more the effort,
the art of it
is what I really like.
I love the craft of what I do.
I love the craft of what you do.
You know, I've been
to your house when you did
that old web show.
I love the craft
of running cables into fridges.
And I do it at my house when
I'm doing band shows, and
So to me, the craft
of all of this
And I think it's why
I still enjoy doing it
after all these years
- You know what I think
my biggest mistake probably was?
- What?
- Deciding that it would be
a good idea to, like,
have everybody
look very closely at my hair
right beside your perfect hair.
- Your lattice looks nice!
- Like, when did
What was I thinking
that this would be a good idea?
We got Strombo,
with the perfect hair here
(laughing)
And then we got me, like eh
(soft music)
One of the things
I wanted to try today,
which is probably just
an absurd idea,
but it's like,
maybe if I played like,
something really simple
and repetitive,
like just a simple groove
- Yeah.
- And then, like,
you played over it
- Yeah.
- And we could just kinda jam.
- Let's do it.
- And then maybe
we could use it like, for some
of the score to the show.
- That would be great.
- So like,
what would be a good
If I just sorta did something
kinda like
(soft music)
Alright. Alright.
There we go, see now
(applause)
We just recorded one song.
We just wrote and recorded
one song there.
(laughing)
It's a funny day ♪
At the funny farm ♪
Such a funny day ♪
At the funny farm ♪
And the chicken goes cluck
at the funny farm ♪
And the cow goes moo
at the funny farm ♪
And the horse goes heee
at the funny farm ♪
And the pig goes bluch
at the funny farm ♪
(drumming and chanting)
(Tom): Yeah, you said
you're Algonquin?
I went to Algonquin College.
Television and radio
broadcasting. So
I was just explaining that
to you 'cause I want you
to know that, like,
I know what I'm doing here.
Anyways, enough about me.
Thanks for coming, Stephanie.
(laughing)
- Well, thank you
for having me today.
- How did you get involved
with the Spirit Horses?
- I started about 20 years ago
with Indigenous Experiences.
My boss has always
these great ideas, and one day,
she's like,
"Oh, so we've acquired
some rare and endangered
Ojibwe Spirit Horses.
I really feel like
it's a good fit
for what it is we do and offer.
I feel like they're gonna be
a great addition
to the ambassador team."
- What sort of
you know, information do you
wanna get out there to people?
- We really wanna execute
to the world that, like,
we as Indigenous people,
we've lived off of the land
so long as that land
was able to sustain us.
And we did everything we could
to care for that land.
- You're Algonquin
Ojibwe and Algonquin,
is that all the same area,
or is that all?
- So, I'm Algonquin.
But, Ojibwe and Algonquin,
we shared many
of the same areas.
Now, when I say we lived
off the land
so long it was able
to sustain us,
we would actually
pack up our camps,
and we would relocate
to another location,
allow that land
to replenish itself.
And then as the seasons change,
we would then move again.
So many of our areas
were shared.
- Yeah.
- With a lot of our history,
a lot of it, kinda,
was covered up
When I went to high school,
they didn't even teach us about
the residential schools.
- Right. And so now that
you learn about all of that,
and that's been quite
a controversy, of course,
in Canada,
in the last few years.
Like, how do you talk
about that with people?
- Well, we try to find
the nicest way
to share that message,
that, you know, like,
we're here,
we've always been here,
and this is kind of what
we wanna share with everyone.
We always like to say
we're planning for the next
seven generations.
So we wanna make sure
that the next seven generations
will have, you know,
clean water, good food
But to make sure
that that land is still good
seven generations from now.
- You made this, right?
- I did.
- And is this sort of a
Is there a certain type
of skirt that would be?
And what would that
be called when you
- So this is what
we call a ribbon skirt.
And we made these,
this one specifically,
to represent our farm.
So as you can see,
we have our logo.
- Yeah.
- And then, well,
the sun rises
and sets every day,
so I felt that was
very appropriate.
- Yeah.
- And then over here,
we have a Tree of Peace.
- Yeah.
- And can you take
a guess what that is?
- That's a horse
right there, eh?
Spirit Horse.
- Spirit Horse.
- Yeah. Absolutely.
(gentle guitar music)
When you wrote your
this new album,
like, was there
is there a overall, uh
sort of theme to it, or?
- I would say this is definitely
my Philadelphia record.
Or "bringing it all back home
to Philadelphia" record.
And it's, like, pretty deep.
It's a combination
of everything I've done.
Maybe new influences,
but combining
all my styles together.
And I also did say I'm treating
it like my last record.
Not that it will be,
but who knows
when I'll make another
full-length record.
It takes a lot outta me
- It's not your last album.
- It's not gonna be
my last album,
but I'm treating it that way.
Because it could be!
So
Not because I'll quit,
but what if I'll either forget
or I'll, you know
lose my voice or worse,
you know.
(Tom chuckles)
- You could tour everywhere.
All around the world.
- I'm gonna tour
all over the world.
- Would you like to play
a song without me ruining it?
- Requests?
- Uh, something that
you'd like to play.
(playing guitar)
I woke up this morning ♪
Didn't recognize
the man in the mirror ♪
Then I left and said,
oh silly me, that's just me ♪
Then I proceeded to brush
some stranger's teeth ♪
But they were my teeth ♪
And I was weightless ♪
Quivering like some leaf come
in the window of a restroom ♪
I couldn't tell you ♪
What the hell
it was supposed to mean ♪
'Cause it was a Monday ♪
No a Tuesday no a Wednesday
Thursday, Friday ♪
Then Saturday came around ♪
And I said
who's that stupid clown ♪
Blockin' the bathroom sink ♪
All he ever wanted ♪
Was to be someone in life
that was just like ♪
All I want is to just
have fun ♪
Live my life
like a son of a gun ♪
I could be one thousand
miles away ♪
Still mean what I said ♪
Then I woke up this morning ♪
Didn't recognize
the man in the mirror ♪
Laughed, said silly me,
that's just me ♪
Then I proceeded to not comb
some stranger's hair ♪
Never was my style ♪
(clears throat)
Then I couldn't tell you
what the hell ♪
It was supposed to mean ♪
'Cause it was a Monday ♪
No, a Tuesday, no, a Wednesday
Thursday, Friday ♪
Then Saturday
came around and I said ♪
Who's that stupid clown
blocking the bathroom sink ♪
But he was sporting
all my clothes ♪
I gotta say pretty pimpin' ♪
(chuckling)
All he ever wanted ♪
Was to be a man ♪
But he was always ♪
A little too cute to be
admitted under marbles lost ♪
He was always
a thousand mile away ♪
While still standing
in front of your face ♪
Then he woke up this morning ♪
Didn't recognize
the boy in the mirror ♪
Laughed ♪
Said, silly me,
that's just me ♪
Then I proceeded to brush
some stranger's teeth ♪
But they were mine ♪
And I was weightless ♪
Quivering like some leaf come
in the window of a restroom ♪
And I couldn't tell you ♪
What the hell
it was supposed to mean ♪
'Cause it was a Monday ♪
No, a Tuesday, no, a Wednesday
Thursday, Friday ♪
Then Saturday came around,
and I said ♪
Who's that stupid clown
blocking the bathroom sink ♪
But he was sporting
all my clothes ♪
I gotta say pretty pimpin' ♪
(applause)
- Alright.
That's awesome.
- Sweet.
- That's so great to be able
to watch you play that.
Right here in the barn.
- In the barn.
(soft music)
- We're gonna go ride
some horses, too.
- Oh, I can't wait to.
This is the great joy
of my adult life
is getting into horses.
- I had no idea about
any of that stuff
till two and a half years ago.
Now I ride my mule Fanny,
like, almost every day here.
And it's the most relaxing,
calming thing that I can do.
That I've ever done, really.
'Cause you're connected
with this animal.
And you're sort of learning
how to build this relationship
with it, of trust.
What is it you like
about it so much?
- It's what you said,
to be connected to something
so large and breathing
- Mm-hmm.
- And sensitive.
They're so emotional.
Plus I'm a motorcycle guy,
so horses are just
the analogue version
of what a motorcycle is to me.
- What kind of motorcycle
do you have?
- I have five bikes. Yeah.
- Five motorcycles.
So you ride a motorcycle
all the way
like, from LA to Toronto?
- Yeah, I've ridden from
I've done the ride
20, 30 times in my life.
- It's a bit dangerous though,
isn't it?
- I've crashed a bunch.
- You've crashed?
- Oh yeah.
- You keep doing it though?
- It's dangerous.
But I'm much safer now.
Because of Tom Cruise.
- What did he do?
- After I crashed,
I had this broken bone,
and I left the hospital
and I went straight to the CBC
to do my talk show.
And I was in enormous pain.
First couple weeks, Tom Cruise
is one of the guests.
Somebody tells Tom, "Hey"
You know, 'cause Tom
can be very friendly,
"Don't slap George in the back,
'cause he got a broken bone,
'cause he hurt himself
in a bike crash."
So, Tom's person walks up to me
at the station and says,
"Tom wants to talk to you."
So we get into an alcove
by the CBC,
and we're this close
to each other.
- Uh-huh. Weird.
- And like
Lethal Weapon, he says, "I heard
you got in an accident."
I said, "I did."
He said, "Show me."
I'm like, okay.
So I pull my shirt down,
you could see the bone that was,
like, broken,
'cause it was stuck
outside of here
- Oh my God.
- You couldn't see the bone,
it was in the skin,
but you could see the big bulge
and all that,
and then he goes, "Look."
And he showed me his.
- Wow. I'll show you yours
if you show me mine.
Or whatever it is.
- That's it.
(laughs)
Three weeks later,
I get a package
sent to my house.
All this information
on motorcycle racing
with a phone number.
And it said, "Call this guy.
We need to keep you alive, Tom."
I'm like, okay.
Then, couple days later,
my phone rings
at four o'clock in the morning,
I'm just getting home
from being out.
- Like, checking in on ya.
- Yeah, he checked in.
I'm in bed, I see my phone
there, I'm like, ugh.
And I don't know the number.
I'm like, "Hello?"
And he says, "Strombo.
It's Tom Cruise."
- Oh my God.
- I was like, "Hey, Tom."
He's like,
"Did you get my package?"
I said, "I did."
"Call that guy.
You gotta learn."
I said, "Tom, the problem
is I go too fast."
He said, "No, no.
This will teach you
how to ride it safely."
So I said okay.
So I called the guy.
I booked a course, I go down.
I get into
this racing course, and
(knocks)
No accidents since.
But he's that guy.
He's the kinda guy that
does that kinda stuff.
What did you learn
about yourself
now that you've been here
for a minute?
- It's a good question.
I definitely, like,
know that I probably
needed to do this.
- Mm-hmm.
- 'Cause I
You know, I think I probably
have a lot of anxiety
at times in my life, and it's
It's completely gone away,
by like
probably like 90 percent.
I don't know, I think
I'm also getting older,
so when you get older,
the anxiety kinda
goes away a bit, too.
As you get older,
I feel less stressed,
'cause there's just so much less
of my life left to ruin.
(laughing)
(soft music)
(Tom): Who is your favourite
interview that you've ever
interviewed?
- Aside from you,
Michael J. Fox.
Michael J. Fox is probably
the most interesting,
'cause he's that
perfect mix of
um, thoughtful, philosophical,
hopeful, honest, funny,
but he's really edgy
and I don't think people realize
how edgy Mike is.
He's also just so accomplished.
In every aspect of his life.
And his career is weirdly
the least impactful thing
about his life.
- Amazing. When you first
went down to Los Angeles,
were you done
with the show on CBC, or?
- No. I first went down
when I was 18.
LA was still pretty
rock and roll back then.
And I wasn't interested
in this industry at all,
but music was my driving force,
as you know, so
But I went there because
I read when I was a kid
that Neil Young
went there when he was 18.
And Neil Young has kind of been
the closest thing I have
to a North Star in Canada.
- Uh-huh.
- And you know,
do it on his own terms,
that kinda stuff.
So when I got on TV
at MuchMusic
and my career started
to blow up,
and I was starting
to be recognized a lot,
I didn't think it was healthy
for that for me.
So I started going to LA,
and I got this really
shitty apartment.
I would go there
on the weekends,
and I was a nobody, but it
I just made sure
that I didn't get
I was never going
to be overwhelmed
or lose myself in the thing,
in the madness of the game,
but I made sure
that I personally
never got accustomed to that.
I brought my tent.
Or can I just roll out
the sleeping bag?
- Absolutely.
- Acoustic guitar.
Some non-alcoholic whiskey,
let's give 'er.
I miss the real stuff,
but this'll do.
- Yeah,
when did you quit drinking?
- I gave up booze 30 years ago,
and I gave up meat and dairy
15 years ago.
- Yeah, I've been thinking
about giving up meat.
Just from hangin' out
with animals so much.
- I went to some hipster
restaurant in Toronto
that was one of those
snout to tail
kinda restaurants.
- Yeah.
- And they had a charcuterie
board of meat.
So I ate it, when I was still
eating meat, and
This last piece
didn't taste great.
And I said, "What is that?"
He said, "It's horse."
- Oh my gosh.
- I got very upset.
I said, "What do you mean,
it's horse?"
And he's like,
"Yeah, it's horse."
He said
it's the same thing as cow.
And I said,
"It's not the same practices,
so it's not the same thing
as cow."
The next day, I'm walking down
Queen Street in Toronto,
and I see a cop on a horse.
- Yeah.
- And the cop stops
to talk to me.
And I'm eye-level
with the horse.
And I had this moment
where I thought, you know.
- Yeah.
- You can smell it.
And shortly thereafter,
I stopped eating meat.
- It's funny, 'cause I was
just talking about
eating horse today
for, like, a long time.
I don't remember why we started
talking about eating horse,
to be honest with you.
It probably wasn't a good idea
to have brought it up,
I don't think.
(laughing)
(soft music)
(acoustic guitar playing)
Hey old man ♪
How many times
we gotta tell you ♪
We don't want none ♪
But, uh,
where you been so long ♪
Hey girl, come on over ♪
Well, that'll be just fine ♪
If it ain't working ♪
Take a whiz on the world ♪
An entire nation just drinking
from a dirty cup ♪
My best friend's long gone ♪
But I got runner-ups ♪
(motor whirring)
When I'm walking ♪
My head is
practically dragging ♪
Yeah, and all I ever see is ♪
Just a whole lotta dirt ♪
My whole life's been ♪
One long-running gag ♪
Two packs of red apples ♪
For the long ride home ♪
Well, you know, baby ♪
Sick of walking ♪
So you took
a wrong-way train ♪
Then you sat down
and you couldn't get up ♪
My best friend's long gone ♪
But I got runner-ups
Yeah ♪
(indistinct chatter)
My best friend's long gone ♪
But I got runner-ups ♪
(laughing)
- Everyone clear!
There you go.
There you go. Good.
Go around these logs!
(indistinct chatter)
What a day.
We're like these young guns.
- That's it.
- Old guns.
- We're old guns.
- Nice. Beautiful.
(applause)
- Thanks.
- Beautiful song.
- Thanks.
- Thank you.
It's been a great day
with Kurt Vile.
Driving tractors
and shit like that.
It's awesome!
There you go! There you go!
Pull that out.
There you go.
(engine stopping)
(Kurt chuckles)
There you go.
Pretty fun, huh?
- Yeah. Takes me back
to my forklift days, except
Yeah, it'd be nice
to just do some digging.
You're lucky.
You're a lucky man.
- Sometimes I go around
and just dig holes and stuff.
(laughing)
Move dirt around
for no reason.
- Woo!
- It's been an awesome day, man.
- Yeah.
(Kurt laughing)
- I really appreciate
you coming.
- No prob, bro.
- So cool.
- Thank you.
- Thank you, man.
- Yeah.
- Amazing. Amazing.
- Yeah.
- What a day. What a day.
Welcome to Canada.
- Thank you.
- Thank you, Kurt Vile.
Awesome.
(soft music)
Maybe you could tell
George and I
what the dance is that
you're about to perform for us.
- So, right now,
I'm wearing my jingle dress.
And I'm going
to share with you guys
a jingle dress dance.
We usually do this as women.
We come together and this dance
actually represents healing.
So, maybe this will help
you guys along your journeys.
I would like to give you guys
a nice little healing dance.
- Do we sound
like we need some healing?
(laughing)
- It could be a thing, you know,
I feel like everybody
needs healing in today's world.
- She heard the interview.
- She heard the interview.
(laughing)
- Okay, thank you, Stephanie.
- Appreciate it, yeah.
Absolutely.
- Do you wanna say anything
else, George, or?
- No, hey! Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you, Tom.
- Thank you. Okay.
Well, we'll step outside here.
(drumming and chanting)
(rattling)
(music stops)
(applause)
(Tom): Alright!
(George): Amazing. Amazing.
- Thanks.
- You're very welcome.
- Thank you so much.
Thank you so much.
- Thanks for coming,
both of you. Thanks, George.
Thanks, Stephanie.
Thanks for comin' out
to the farm.
- Thanks, Charlie!
- Come here, Charlie!
- In our language,
we say "Chi-Miigwetch"!
- Chi-Miigwetch.
- Chi-Miigwetch.
- Good job, you guys.
- Thank you. Oh, thank you.
Thank you.
(chuckling)
And cut.
I hope you enjoyed the show.
I hope you enjoyed the music.
I'm Tom Green.
This is the Tom Green Farm.
See you next week.
This is the farm here.
Thank you for watching.
I'm just gonna keep
thanking you for watching.
You know, you have so many
viewing options these days,
with cellular telephones,
or just looking at stuff.
You don't have
to watch the show,
you can just go out
and look at a tree. Hmm?
You could be out
in the backyard,
just staring at the exhaust pipe
of your vehicle.
You could be standing
in the driveway
just staring at
your exhaust pipe right now,
but instead, you're watching
this. So thank you.
(soft music)